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UChicago events
Lumen Cristi
Wednesday, October 13, 4:30pm
“Spiritual Exercises and the Contemporary Academy”
Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago)
Lisa Ruddick (University of Chicago)
David Wray (University of Chicago)
Swift, Commons Room
Tuesday, October 19, 7:00pm
“How the University of Chicago Opened My American Mind”
Benedict Ashley, OP
Biological Sciences Learning Center, Room 001
Tuesday, November 9, 7:00pm
“Is There a Christian Philosophy?”
Jean-Luc Marion (Université Paris-Sorbonne, University of Chicago)
Swift, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, November 17, 4:30pm
“Aquinas and 20th century Liberalism”
Paul E. Sigmund (Princeton University)
Swift, Commons Room
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Thursday Evening Non-Credit Course
October 7-November 18, 7:00pm (6:30pm, free dinner)
Figures of Reform: Protestant and Catholic Reformers in Early Modern Europe
Cobb Lecture Hall, Room 115
5811 S. Ellis Avenue
Few periods in Western history have proved as significant and controversial as what has come to be known as the Reformation. Whether we date its beginning with Luther’s posting of the 95 theses in 1517, with Pope Leo X’s rebuttal in 1520, or at some other date, the splintering of the Roman Catholic Church and the formation of new and quickly multiplying Christian denominations throughout the sixteenth-century had far-reaching effects in nearly every social and cultural arena up to the present day. This non-credit course will consider both those central figures such as Erasmus, Luther, Thomas More, John Calvin, Teresa of Avila and others, and their respective theological disputes, political stratagems, and institutional structures that were both the cause and effect of this important, and still hotly contested, historical epoch.
October 7: “Erasmus and the Call for Reform: The Intellectual Context of the Reformation”
Katy O’Brien-Weintraub (University of Chicago)
October 14: “Martin Luther”
Susan Schreiner (University of Chicago)
October 21: “Thomas More: Model of Integrity”
John Breen (Loyola University Chicago)
October 28: “John Calvin”
Susan Schreiner (University of Chicago)
November 4: “Ignatius Loyola: Pilgrim, Founder”
Robert Bireley, SJ (Loyola University Chicago)
November 11: “Teresa of Avila”
Mary Frohlich, RSCJ (Catholic Theological Union)
November 18: “John of the Cross—Poet and Mystic”
Keith J. Egan (Saint Mary’s College, University of Notre Dame)
Visit their website at http://www.lumenchristi.org/ for updates on their regular events.
Marty Center speaker series
In the coming year, the Martin Marty Center will hold a series of meetings with recipients of The John Templeton Award for Theological Promise:
